The Part-time Paradox by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781317795285
Google: YhhIAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-04T05:56:11+00:00

The Argument for Commitment

With changing ideology in the profession, some lawyers believe the legal workplace and its norms should change and that part-time work ought not to constrain advancement. They do not see time as a proxy for commitment or excellence. Peggy Garity, a part-time seventh-year associate in a high-profile firm, reasoned that it was illogical for colleagues to regard part-timers as uncommitted. She pointed out that women want part-time work so that they can both further their careers and have children, not because they want to ease out of the profession or lightly invest themselves in a career. She argued against the lore that women lawyers have the attitude that they will develop careers and then opt out when they have children, and that they are not interested in career satisfaction:

There are very few people, very few women, who have this attitude of, “I’m just going to keep working less and less and ease myself out.”… That’s counter-intuitive to me.… If you don’t want to work and want to be home with your kids, then you leave. [So] if you [are] working, then you want to be working.

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